surname
C132
concept
A surname is a hereditary family name shared by members of a family, typically passed down through generations and used to identify lineage or ancestry.
All labels observed (67)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| surname canonical | 10,177 |
| family name | 4,380 |
| English-language surname | 593 |
| German-language surname | 307 |
| Italian-language surname | 195 |
| Japanese surname | 158 |
| Chinese surname | 121 |
| Russian-language surname | 114 |
| Irish surname | 110 |
| patronymic surname | 63 |
| Indian surname | 48 |
| occupational surname | 47 |
| fictional surname | 36 |
| hyphenated surname | 35 |
| Jewish surname | 29 |
| Roman family name | 25 |
| compound surname | 21 |
| cognomen | 20 |
| Scandinavian surname | 11 |
| Vietnamese surname | 10 |
| Chinese-language surname | 9 |
| dynastic surname | 9 |
| familyName | 9 |
| literary surname | 7 |
| surname of Japanese origin | 6 |
| Bengali-language surname | 5 |
| habitational surname | 5 |
| romanized surname | 5 |
| Bengali surname | 4 |
| feminine surname form | 4 |
| surname category | 4 |
| surname variant | 4 |
| Norman surname | 3 |
| Vietnamese-language surname | 3 |
| ancestral name | 3 |
| family surname | 3 |
| feminine surname | 3 |
| American surname | 2 |
| Gujarati surname | 2 |
| Serbian-language surname | 2 |
| double-barrelled surname | 2 |
| family name group | 2 |
| familyNameGroup | 2 |
| human surname | 2 |
| surname of Norman origin | 2 |
| фамилия | 2 |
| Batak surname | 1 |
| Belgian surname | 1 |
| Burmese surname | 1 |
| Cantonese romanization of surname Chen | 1 |
| Cantonese romanization of surname Tan | 1 |
| Central Asian surname | 1 |
| Khatri surname | 1 |
| anglicized surname | 1 |
| ethnonymic surname | 1 |
| family name combination | 1 |
| fictional family surname | 1 |
| hereditary surname | 1 |
| legendary surname | 1 |
| marital surname form | 1 |
| married surname | 1 |
| marriedName | 1 |
| masculine surname | 1 |
| surname family | 1 |
| surname of occupational origin | 1 |
| نام خانوادگی | 1 |
| পারিবারিক নাম | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: surname
Generated description
A surname is a hereditary family name shared by members of a family, typically passed down through generations and used to identify lineage or ancestry.
Instances (11,246)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| Mao | Chinese surname |
| Cuvier | — |
| Smyth | — |
| Kovács | — |
| Kowalski | — |
| Ferraro | — |
| Herrero | — |
| Smiths | family name group |
| Newsom | — |
| Pawley | — |
| Gonzales | — |
| Gunner | — |
| Victorinus | — |
| Carrel | — |
| McDonald | — |
| Scully | — |
| Eldridge | — |
| Lichtenstein | — |
| Vestre | — |
| Emtage | — |
| Mockapetris | — |
| Browning | — |
| Brady | — |
| Bevel | — |
| Granger | — |
| Giddens | family name |
| Bairstow | — |
| Boone | — |
| Nostrand | — |
| Papaleo | — |
| Canning | — |
| Robb | — |
| Ridge | — |
| Draper | — |
| Scopes | — |
| Bloch | — |
| Muskie | — |
| Alsberg | — |
| de Bernis | — |
| Magruder | — |
| Ó Braonáin | Irish surname |
| Alford | — |
| Weaver | — |
| Evert | — |
| Hoover | — |
| Carbentus | — |
| Metcalf | — |
| Meredith | — |
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Thomas Edwards
surface form:
Thomas Edwards (name)
|
English-language surname |
| Reid | — |